Word: dullnesses
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...want to be a First Lady? Wives with careers are cast as Lady Macbeth; wives without are dubbed dull. What's more, the most casual comment about your spouse can generate headlines. In a rare interview last week, Lyudmila Putin let slip that her husband comes home late and doesn't often discuss his day at the office. Russian President Vladimir Putin "works too hard," she said, adding that his long hours make him forget that "one needs not only to work but also to live." Judging by the recent chorus of complaints from leading ladies, there's more than...
...pace of the book also changes abruptly. After a long narrative section the book suddenly stops cold for 15 pages while it compares passages of the French book and Protocols (which, like most extremist tracts, makes for tediously dull reading.) Subtlety and complexity have been hijacked by good intentions...
...neurological roots of cutting are a mystery, but several theories have been put forward. When the body is injured, it releases natural opiates that help dull pain--a process that is behind the fabled runner's high. Cutting inflicts a very real injury, and self-mutilators may be seeking the neurochemical kick that follows. "When I would cut myself deliberately, I didn't even feel it," says Emily, 16, who is in her third week of treatment at Two Brattle Center. "But if I got a paper cut I didn't want, that would hurt...
Walking off the diamond with a dull pain in my lower back and a pleasant lightness in my step, I realized the chance to be a superstar had passed me by. Instead, I was just one of the girls...
...under a minute. I have cuts, bruises, and lumps on my chest, my back is sore, and a large area of my head is swollen and throbbing painfully. The day after, as I sat the holding ice packs to my head and popping ibuprofen every four hours to dull the pain, I felt completely disconnected—as if I were watching myself on a theater-sized screen...